Anet & Community Thank You

#1 - April 3, 2014, 10:19 a.m.

After reading through many different video game forums , such as Diablo 3 and WoW. I have come to the conclusion that this forum community is by far more tolerant and respectful. The number of flaming forums on here are not as toxic and insulting to read.

Diablo 3 forums are like trying to listen to rival gangs talk with each other without being able to shoot. Extremely toxic community with insults and threats being thrown around every 3rd post (sometimes more frequent). Even reading some of the “helping” threads ends up in a giant war over nothing (or a missing calculation or something small).

So here is a big thank you to Anet and the GW2 Forum community for being more tolerant and respectful in the posts. The worst GW2 posts are similar to the best Diablo 3 posts!

CC Danicia

#12 - April 3, 2014, 2:57 p.m.

ShinjoNaomi.1896:
People have their opinions. Sharing those opinions is good. Sharing those opinions in a vehemently negative fashion while deriding anyone that doesn’t share that opinion is not, regardless of what that opinion is.

So true! We do understand it can be a bit jarring to folks used to other forums, when we’re very vocal about keeping our forums respectful to each other and to our staff. There are a good many folks who are critical, but never have their posts removed or get infracted.

We believe that the community likes that we work hard to create a safe and welcoming space. Thousands up thousands of posts are made every single day and although we wish we could review them all, it’s just not physically possible. The more folks report posts, the better the forums are for everyone. When they’re welcoming, both players and staff feel more positive about interacting with each other.

CC Danicia

#15 - April 3, 2014, 4:24 p.m.

Rainbow Sprint.3215:
You’ve obviously never been to the WvW forum. I hadn’t either until recently. A guy’s thread was moved there and I was watching it because when he got into jade quarry I was gonna invite him to my guild, entire thread just turned into a thread about matchups and server bashing.

Alas, we cannot always find and hunt down the posts, so it’s always great when players report them to direct the Moderation Team to those threads.